It's a good thing some states actually have 'simple' ballots and 'fool-proof' voting as described before, but I wonder why that's not a nation-wide thing, given the past incidents you've described in your post.
Ah well.... whoever gets to be president will probably have 4 years of hell:)
Being from outside the US, I really don't understand why things are made so complex for votes in the US.
Recently, we just had municipal elections. The ballots we simply laid out: two rectangles with two candidates in each, representing that you had to vote once for each for each (one for city mayor, the other for counsellor)
To vote, we simply had to color in the circle to the right of the name (no lining up arrows or lines with machine!)
Once done voting, you brought your ballot to the person who took care of these, which would insert your ballot face down in a machine that would verify that the ballot was good. If it wasn't (ex: voted twice for the same post, although very unlikely given the ballot design), you were given a new ballot and asked to vote again (properly!:). No 20,000 ballots annulled possible.
I also don't really see the need for an electoral college; although there was an article posted here on/. detailing the resons it should stay, I didn't finish reading it because of lazyness, and I didn't see the relevence of comparing a baseball series to an election; but I won't argue the article's points untill I read it fully.
It did seem to imply however that democracy would've fallen down had it not been for the electoral college. Funny, I haven't seen other countries being destroyed specifically because of a lack of it, but IANAPH (I am no a political historian).
I can see electronic voting being very good; no need to go anywhere to vote (in the case of internet voting), and less possibility of errors. But this can take a while to get adopted, just like bank machines; older folks don't feel comfortable with technology sometimes.
Give me democratic popular-vote elections any day!
I've had similar problems with Dave as described above, but mostly I found it to be much slower than using AppleTalk.
On the odd occasion I need to transfer files to a PC, I just install the demo version of PCMacLan from Miramar. Transfers are much faster, and the demo has a time out of 180 mins (3 hours!!!).
So, given that Dave was useless to me, I doubt they can come out with something useful for OS X. Being that Mac is big on GUI, I'm sure someone will come up with some implementation of Samba that will make it transparent in OS X.
I've use this program to get me off some spam lists, but it's not always successful.
Once I kept getting spams about the same stupid service/product. After looking at the message, I noticed that the reply address was indeed valid since there wasn't any URL/phone number/name in the main message, and I assumed any replies were going to the actual people that had paid to get their messge sent.
So I sent some BSM (Bouce Spam Mail) messages to all the address I could find in the message headers/source. Kept getting some spam, sent more messages...
One day I got a whole slew of the same messages (again), I had enough, so I sent 100 BSM messages to each reply address for each message I got.
I haven't received any of these messages again, and I get less spam now.
It's a good thing to check the headers/source of the message to see if there are any valid addresses. If it's all fake, then it's time to email abuse@{domain};)
Well, if you had actually taken the time to find out what the 'New Amiga' was, you'd know it wasn't about a silly fight for a trademark
While the Amiga name will be used to promote the product, it's nothing like the purchase of the Commodore name; there's actually a new product behind it this time (as impossible as that sounds, given the last few years in Amiga's history!)
OpenTV get its 'patent' approved, nullifying Amazon's.
Apple sues Amazon for misrepresentation of its 'IP'-patents.
Amazon in turn sues the Patent office because of all the trouble this caused...
This would be an ideal situation, as it would make parties responsible for their greedy actions, as well as giving them a well-deserved slap in the face.
Sometimes I wonder if readers even bother going through the link to read the whole story, or just read the/. paragraph and write out their comments based on that alone...
There are two major issues here:
1. Wether ISOnews' stuff is infrigment.
That's possibly for the courts to decide, and IANAL so I won't try to justify either party's reasonings (however, my stereo's manual does instruct me on how to record to tape from CD; should they be sued?? Food for thought.)
2. Sega's strong armed tactics against ISOnews and other sites.
I think this is the major issue. They're threatning legal action against a site, citing copyright laws, but not providing any specifics as to how said law was possibly broken, as required by said law. This seems to be typical of companies these days.
Now, if you don't know what I'm talking about, then I invite you to actually read the links attached to the article.
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only in Canada do you have to pay duty on imported comuter stuff, but other NA countries pay nothing.
<SARCASM> I'm *so* proud to be Canadian! </SARCASM>
It's a good thing some states actually have 'simple' ballots and 'fool-proof' voting as described before, but I wonder why that's not a nation-wide thing, given the past incidents you've described in your post.
Ah well.... whoever gets to be president will probably have 4 years of hell :)
Recently, we just had municipal elections. The ballots we simply laid out: two rectangles with two candidates in each, representing that you had to vote once for each for each (one for city mayor, the other for counsellor)
To vote, we simply had to color in the circle to the right of the name (no lining up arrows or lines with machine!)
Once done voting, you brought your ballot to the person who took care of these, which would insert your ballot face down in a machine that would verify that the ballot was good. If it wasn't (ex: voted twice for the same post, although very unlikely given the ballot design), you were given a new ballot and asked to vote again (properly! :). No 20,000 ballots annulled possible.
I also don't really see the need for an electoral college; although there was an article posted here on /. detailing the resons it should stay, I didn't finish reading it because of lazyness, and I didn't see the relevence of comparing a baseball series to an election; but I won't argue the article's points untill I read it fully.
It did seem to imply however that democracy would've fallen down had it not been for the electoral college. Funny, I haven't seen other countries being destroyed specifically because of a lack of it, but IANAPH (I am no a political historian).
I can see electronic voting being very good; no need to go anywhere to vote (in the case of internet voting), and less possibility of errors. But this can take a while to get adopted, just like bank machines; older folks don't feel comfortable with technology sometimes.
Give me democratic popular-vote elections any day!
On the odd occasion I need to transfer files to a PC, I just install the demo version of PCMacLan from Miramar. Transfers are much faster, and the demo has a time out of 180 mins (3 hours!!!).
So, given that Dave was useless to me, I doubt they can come out with something useful for OS X. Being that Mac is big on GUI, I'm sure someone will come up with some implementation of Samba that will make it transparent in OS X.
Once I kept getting spams about the same stupid service/product. After looking at the message, I noticed that the reply address was indeed valid since there wasn't any URL/phone number/name in the main message, and I assumed any replies were going to the actual people that had paid to get their messge sent.
So I sent some BSM (Bouce Spam Mail) messages to all the address I could find in the message headers/source. Kept getting some spam, sent more messages...
One day I got a whole slew of the same messages (again), I had enough, so I sent 100 BSM messages to each reply address for each message I got.
I haven't received any of these messages again, and I get less spam now.
It's a good thing to check the headers/source of the message to see if there are any valid addresses. If it's all fake, then it's time to email abuse@{domain} ;)
While the Amiga name will be used to promote the product, it's nothing like the purchase of the Commodore name; there's actually a new product behind it this time (as impossible as that sounds, given the last few years in Amiga's history!)
More factual info can be found on amiga.com
This would be an ideal situation, as it would make parties responsible for their greedy actions, as well as giving them a well-deserved slap in the face.
They have a list of MS' spending spree over the years. (look under 'departments')
Apple's site has had this since they've announced the 1click thing well over a week ago. This is hardly news.
There are two major issues here:
1. Wether ISOnews' stuff is infrigment.
That's possibly for the courts to decide, and IANAL so I won't try to justify either party's reasonings (however, my stereo's manual does instruct me on how to record to tape from CD; should they be sued?? Food for thought.)
2. Sega's strong armed tactics against ISOnews and other sites.
I think this is the major issue. They're threatning legal action against a site, citing copyright laws, but not providing any specifics as to how said law was possibly broken, as required by said law. This seems to be typical of companies these days.
Now, if you don't know what I'm talking about, then I invite you to actually read the links attached to the article.